Sunday, 26 March 2017

PDP will bounce back —Jonathan

FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed confidence that the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will resolve its crisis and become
stronger again, just as he stresses the need to urgently return power to
the people in the party.
Jonathan, who had championed the possibility of a political solution
to the impasse in the party, argued that litigation had handed the
mandate of the people to the judiciary.
Jonathan, while receiving the report of the Governor Seriake
Dickson-led PDP reconciliation committee, at his country home, Otuoke,
Bayelsa State, on Saturday, gave the assurance of PDP resurgence in not
too distant future.
According to him, “resorting to courts for political disagreements was abnormal.”
He also commended the committee for getting the two factions of the
party to the negotiating table and added that a truce was in sight given
the commitments so far by the party faithful.
“I have always believed that political differences should be resolved
outside the courts. But unfortunately, we are already involved with it
and gone up to the Supreme Court. We are hopeful of a political
solution.
“Party politics is supposed to be a family affair and ought to be
resolved amicably without resorting to the courts,” Jonathan said.
In his reaction, Governor Dickson disclosed that he accepted the
challenge of rebuilding the PDP and expressed gratitude to the party
that gave Bayelsa the platform to lead Nigeria through Jonathan.
He said political option remained the best way of resolving the crisis within the party.
He noted that Jonathan laid the foundations for a political solution
when he convened a meeting of PDP governors a few weeks ago that
approved the peace plan.
He said the report, which is a roadmap to achieving peace, was open
to review and urged stakeholders with ideas to rebuild the party to
table such ideas for discussion.
Speaking earlier, a member of the reconciliation committee Mr
Mohammed Gana, said Jonathan epitomised peace in the way he conceded
defeat at the last general election, a development that stabilised the
country.

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